Re: COPY taking forever, I just want to end it! - Mailing list pgsql-general

> -----Original Message-----
Ian,
Thank you so much for rapidly responding!

The file seems to have the correct fields (it is a dump from MySQL
database).  Where does this NOTICE log to, btw?  I didn't start the
postmaster with logging....

What about just killing the processes?  How can I end this?

-Beth

> From: Ian Harding [mailto:ianh@tpchd.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 10:54 AM
> To: beth@vizxlabs.com
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] COPY taking forever, I just want to end it!
>
>
> I have found that copy takes forever when there are extra
> fields in the data.  Copy logs a NOTICE for each record,
> something about "Extra junk ignored".  That may take up some
> of the time, but the delay seems way longer than just logging.
>
> Are there such lines in your log?
>
> Ian A. Harding
> Programmer/Analyst II
> Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department
> (253) 798-3549
> mailto: iharding@tpchd.org
>
> We have only two things to worry about:  That things will never get
> back to normal, and that they already have.
>
>
> >>> "Beth Gatewood" <beth@vizxlabs.com> 07/24/02 10:48AM >>>
> I am trying to copy 5917328 tuples into a single table (I am
> running it
> through a perl script that makes a system call to psql -c
> sending in the
> command).  This now seems to still be running 19.5 hours
> later which is not
> reasonable.  I am not sure why this is taking so long....I
> didn't disable
> indices so this may be part of the problem.....
> However, my questions are:
> 1- do I kill off all the process below?
> [root@india pgsql7.2]# ps -auxwww | grep post
> postgres  9316  0.0  0.4  5268 1096 ?        S    Jul08   0:00
> /usr/local/pgsql7.2/bin/postmaster -i -D /usr/local/pgsql7.2/data/
> postgres  9317  0.0  0.1  6260  344 ?        S    Jul08
> 0:00 postgres:
> stats buffer process
> postgres  9318  0.0  0.2  5340  540 ?        S    Jul08
> 0:00 postgres:
> stats collector process
> postgres  9721  7.1  1.0  5676 2624 ?        D    03:15
> 82:14 postgres:
> beth array [local] COPY
> postgres 11202  0.0  1.2  5904 3076 ?        S    21:25
> 0:00 postgres:
> beth array [local] idle
> root     11279  0.0  0.4  2264 1048 pts/5    S    21:51
> 0:00 su postgres
> postgres 11281  0.0  0.5  2448 1400 pts/5    S    21:51   0:00 bash
> root     11406  0.0  0.2  1624  616 pts/5    S    22:25
> 0:00 grep post
>
> 2- Also-why is 11202 idle?
>
> 3- Would pg_ctl stop -m fast be a way to end a problem like this?
>
> Thanks-Beth
>
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